The Arizona champion., 1887-05-21
TERRITORIAL.
Wilcox has a new church.

Sheriff Waddell is very sick at Pres. colt.
 The Chiricahaus will not be sent back to Arizona.
 The Bisbee smelters are closed down, cause, no cske.
 Prescott has six doctors and still the,death rate is low.
 Kingman will soon have county jail and court house.
 B. A. Fickas is now business man. ager of the Phoenix Gazette.
 It is stated that the Lordsburg A6. vaaee will be removed to Prescott.
 The Yuma Indians cremated their dead chef, Pasquot, near Yuma, last week.
 Six cases of insanity are reported from Tucson said to be caused by the earthquake fright. .
 A man by the name of Stubbs com mitted suicide at Phenx last week by shooting himself with revolver.
 Detectives now claim they are on the right trail of the Southern Pacific railroad robbers. The thing is to catch them.
 Hon. Mark Smith has the nomina. ton of a cadet to the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Now if there Is any boy ambitious of becoming another Farragut here is chance.
 The body of J. E. Dixon, proprie- tor of the Russ House at Tucson, who was missing for several days has been found. He lost himself while suffer- ing from temporary insanity and died from exhaustion.
 "The black horse cavalry of com merce will soon be neighing in our streets" (meaning locomotives) says the Phoenix Gazette. If it ever gets them, making day and night hideous with their whistles and blowers as they do in Flagstaff the Phoenix peo- pie will find shorter and more em- phatic name for them.
 w. G. Staubly is now editor of the Clifton Clarion, and Messrs. Geo. w. and R. C, Brown editors and proprie- tors of the Florence Enterprise. We have known all three of them for years. They are A. gentlemen, good journalists, and the CHAMPION wishes them success and prosperity in their new fields of labor.
 It is said that Captain Lawton, the famed captor of Geronimo, has effect ed the purchase of some I7,ooo acres of land in Sonora, near Nacosari. The tract embraces some valuable mineral lands and has few equals as a range. Extensive cattle purchases are being made in Texas for the purpose stocking it. Every Arizonian will wish the gallant captain success.- Tucson Star.
 The "Sierra Bonita Land and Stock Company" has recently been organ ized and incorporated under the laws of the territory. The incorporated property comprises Col. H. C. Hook. CTS Sierra Bonita ranch and stock, and the ranches and stock of Messrs. NJ. w. Stewart, E. R. and J. M Hooker and F. R. Chamberlain. The officers of the company are: President, NJ. w. Stewart; Vice President, E. R. Hooker; Secretary and Treasurer, F. K. Chamberlain; Directors, H. C. Hooker, NJ. w. Stewart, E. K. Hook. CT; Ranch Superintendent, E. R. Hooker; Range Superintendent, J.. M Hooker. The Sierra Bonita ranch is one of the oldest and best in the ter. ritory and the new company controls range second to none in the south, west which is well stocked with high grade of cattle ard horses. Wilcox Stockman.
 A correspondent of the Globe Dem ocrat in writing about Mir. Reynold: who owns considerable mining prop, erty in the southern part of this coun, ty, and who IS known as "Diamond Joe," says Che was started in busi ness by the same man that gave Jay Gould his first lift. MT. Reynolds i: not as wealthy to-day as Mir. Gould but he owns all the money he wants and MT. Gould has often said 1t dlc not need fifty million to secure con. tentment. Diamond Joe" Reynold. is a rich man, and he spends much O his time between Chicago and Ho Springs. On his first visit to Ho Springs he was compelled to stage i from Malvern. The ride disgustec him as much as the Springs delighted him. He found man who had ob tained a charter for railroad iron Malvern to the Spring, and who hac no money. The charter and some money changed hands. Reynold. built the road and owns it, rolling stock and all. The road is twenty four miles long. He made his none, in wheat, but not Tn Sullivan county After getting start there he wen, west and shippei wheat from Wiscon sin to Chicago. He shipped it ir sacks and marked the sacks with { diamond and inclosed Tn it the letters "J. O." It was from this circum stance, because the sacks and trade mark became widely known, that he obtained the sobriquet of "Diamond